2015 ... by Edwin Hard [and eight others] ∑ Travel estimates from models and manuals developed from trip attraction rates having high variances due to few survey observations can reduce confidence and accuracy in estimates. This project compiled and analyzed data from more than a decade of work place and special generator

2014 ... Subodh Dubey [and five others] ∑ This project developed a process and framework for generating the inputs needed for estimating a travel mode choice model that includes the transit mode, and developing a framework for implementing the results of an estimated travel mode choice model to project mode shares in

[2014] ... Subodh Dubey [and five others] ∑ "On December 18, 2013, the research team hosted a workshop at CTR to gather feedback on and generate discussion of the mode choice model that was developed [as part of Project 0-6766, "A Generic Mode Choice Model Applicable for Small and Medium-Sized MPOs"]. Attendees included

[2014] ... Research Performed by: Center for Transportation Research; Research Supervisor: Chandra R. Bhat; Researchers: Marisol Castro [and four others] ∑ "Due to the projected population growth increase in Texas and the continued increase in total motorized vehicle miles traveled in Texas, the Texas Department of Transportation

2013 ... Carlos H. Caldas [and five others] ∑ This report investigates potential methods of linking transportation planning in Texas, principally long-range planning, with the environmental clearance process required of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The purpose of the research is to achieve time and monetary savings by

2013 ... Khali R. Persad [and four others] ∑ The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) sought the services of a public institution of higher education to conduct a study of TxDOTís professional services contracting program through an Interagency Contract (IAC). The Request for Proposal (RFP) stated that it had come to

2013 ... Khali R. Persad [and four others] ∑ The objective of the work documented in this report was to examine full-time-equivalent (FTE) staffing needs for TxDOT project development and construction, and analyze needs for backlogging projects, i.e., preparing construction plans in advance and keeping them at the ready for possible

2013 ... Khali Persad [and four others] ∑ This research project was established by TxDOTís Research and Technology Implementation Office to address special studies required by the departmentís Administration during FY 2012. Three tasks were completed and are documented. ∑ CONTENTS: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.

2013 ... Research Performed by: Center for Transportation Research; Research Supervisor: Carlos H. Caldas; Researchers: Tyler Stock [and four others] ∑ "Since the enactment of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) in 1970, sponsors of transportation projects that receive federal money or fall under the purview of the

2012 ... Tyler Adam Stock [and five others] ∑ "The purpose of this document is to serve as a resource to various Texas agencies involved in transportation planning, project planning, and NEPA compliance. The resource will make recommendations and identify areas where these agencies can facilitate the NEPA process by linking it with regional

2012 ... Rachel Niven, Nathan Hutson, Lisa Loftus-Otway and Leigh Boske ∑ "This poster synthesizes the major findings of a study comissioned by TxDOT to document the Mexican transportation planning process in an attempt to provide a more in-depth understanding of how the country plans and implements major infrastructure projects.

2012 ... Research Supervisor: Jolanda Prozzi; Researchers: Carlos Caldas, Lisa Loftus-Otway, Thiago Paes ∑ Many State Departments of Transportation, including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), are increasingly challenged by inadequate funding from traditional federal and state fuel taxes. Conceived in the 1950s

2012 ... Robert Harrison [and six others] ∑ Megaregion interest has grown strongly in the last decade and is now seen by a growing number of planners as offering effective contributions to problems such as modal congestion, development disparity, and air pollution that individual metropolitan areas or cities cannot resolve individually.

2012 ... Khali R. Persad [and nineteen others] ∑ This document contains seven research briefs developed for TxDOT's Strategic Research Program (SRP) in FY 2011, with a brief introduction summarizing the initiation of the SRP. ∑ CONTENTS: Project Summary Report: Development of a Strategic Research Program for TxDOT -- SRP

2011 ... Jolanda Prozzi [and four others] ∑ The objectives of this research study were to (a) illustrate and quantify the impacts imposed by the energy sector on Texasís transportation system and (b) identify key energy demand indicators by energy source that TxDOT can track in an effort to anticipate the associated future transportation

2011 ... Research Supervisor: Jolanda Prozzi; Researchers: Ambarish Banerjee [and six others] ∑ Texasís energy sector has a critical impact on both the state economy and the Texas transportation system. The stateís various transportation modes, including rail, highways, pipelines, and ports, form a system that facilitates the energy

2011 ... Research Supervisor: Rob Harrison; Researchers: Nathan Hutson [and five others] ∑ Demographic growth is now concentrating both population and economic performance into multi-city boundaries termed megaregions, which challenge traditional systems of transportation planning when the needs through 2040 are considered. The

2011 ... Curtis Morgan [and seven others] ∑ The use of existing and abandoned railroad rights-of-way has been a proven method of acquiring linear corridors for the construction of roadways since the formation of the Texas Highway Department. Either paralleling existing rail lines or re-using corridors first used by railroad companies

2011 ... RS: Jolanda Prozzi; Researchers: Chandra Bhat [and four others] ∑ During 2004-2006, TxDOT project 0-5208 developed a method for the identification, measurement, and mitigation of adverse impacts imposed on EJ communities. The methodology proposed had two components: an analysis/ quantitative component and an

2011 ... RS: C. Michael Walton, CTR; Researchers: Robert Harrison [and five others] ∑ Texas faces a highway funding shortfall and increasing freight demand, which translates to fewer miles of new highway and higher levels of congestion. One solution is to move the additional freight on more productive trucks on key routes on the current

2011 ... RS: Phillip Nash; Researchers: Douglas Smith [and four others] ∑ "As the country works to make alternative energy sources widely accessible and usable, challenges arise in coordinating power transmission to the metropolitan areas that need it most, and in increased demand on rural infrastructure. TechMRT and The University

[2010] ... Leigh B. Boske, Lisa Loftus-Otway, Nathan Hutson ∑ "The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has established interdisciplinary research on policy problems as the core of its educational program. A major part of this program is the nine-month policy research project (PRP), in the course of which two or more faculty members

2010 ... Jolanda Prozzi [and five others] ∑ Inadequate and uncertain transportation funding have in recent years resulted in a renewed emphasis on using investments that can be recovered by toll charges to finance new roads and modernize existing roads. This has raised questions about environmental justice (EJ) and how it pertains to

2010 ... by Phillip T. Nash [and eight others] ∑ Rural areas of Texas are being extensively developed as locations for renewable energy projects and generation facilities. Wind power, solar power, and other renewable energy technologies are viewed by the public as the next economic boom and have been compared to the oil boom of the

2010 ... Jolanda Prozzi [and nine others] ∑ Inadequate funding from fuel taxes, increased demand for transportation, and increased maintenance needs due to an aging highway system, have resulted in significant deficits along with renewed interest in toll road development, both to finance new roads or add capacity to existing

2009 ... Lisa Loftus-Otway [and five others] ∑ Mexico is Texas' largest trading partner, and consequently they share an interest in increasing trade volumes across their 1,254 mile border. Mexico's recent attention to transportation infrastructure and announcement of its five-year National Infrastructure Plan (NIP), are expected to

2009 ... Dana Welter [and four others] ∑ A specific Vcost model was developed for Texas conditions based on a sophisticated fuel model for light duty vehicles, several excellent sources of secondary vehicle cost data, and the ability to measure heavy truck fuel consumption through both experimental and survey work. The basic model was

2009 ... Khali R. Persad [and six others] ∑ This research report documents work conducted by the Center for Transportation (CTR) at The University of Texas at Austin in analyzing the Joint Analysis using the Combined Knowledge (J.A.C.K.) program. This program was developed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)

2009 ... Lisa Loftus-Otway [and five others] ∑ This research examined the legal, financial, institutional and policy processes that Mexico uses to plan, finance, construct, and implement its transportation network. It documents through twelve case studies the state of the practice in planning, financing, conducting traffic and revenue studies,

2009 ... C. Michael Walton [and nine others] ∑ As toll road development increases to finance new or add capacity to existing road infrastructure, reliable traffic and revenue (T&R) forecasts informed by a robust understanding of who uses and who does not use toll roads becomes increasingly important to toll road developers, financiers, T&R

2009 ... Khali R. Persad [and six others] ∑ Recently, as part of a comprehensive analysis of budget and funding options, a TxDOT special task force has examined the agency's current financial forecasting methods and has developed a model designed to estimate future State Highway Fund revenues and expenditures. The Joint Analysis

2008 ... C. Michael Walton [and six others] ∑ Reliable T&R forecasts are critical to the success of toll proposals. However, a number of studies by the bond rating agencies-- specifically Standard & Poor's (S&P)-- have shown that a majority of toll roads failed to meet revenue expectations in their first full year of operation. These studies alluded

2008 ... Lisa Loftus-Otway [and three others] ∑ Rail Corridor preservation and planning for the purpose of reducing or restricting incompatible development is an area of growing importance. This report provides an overview regarding encroachment and the elements that contribute to potentially incompatible development along

2008 ... Lisa Loftus-Otway [and three others] ∑ This guidebook has been divided into two main sections for ease of use. Section one covers corridor protection strategies in general and provides a review of practices that are used around the U.S as well as case study examples and costs and links to reports, websites, and legislation, where

2008 ... C. Michael Walton [and three others] ∑ Rail Corridor preservation and planning for the purpose of reducing or restricting incompatible development is an area of growing importance. This report provides an overview regarding encroachment and the elements that contribute to potentially incompatible development along

2006 ... Robert Harrison [and three others] ∑ 5-4083-01-P1: Implementation Manual outlining procedures for evaluating a sponsor?s inland port proposal and providing guidance for scoring and evaluating proposals. Proposals have been split into two time-frames to ensure scoring reflects the type of facility being proposed i.e. (i) when a new

2006 ... RS: Robert Harrison ; Researchers: Lisa Loftus-Otway [and three others] ∑ Recent trends at national and state levels have contributed to the development of freight performance measure (FPM) strategies to assist highway planners. First, the North American Free Trade Agreement initiated the move towards global trading that has

2006 ... Robert Harrison [and four others] ∑ This one-year scoping study examined the current status of highway Freight Performance Measure (FPM) implementation in the United States for possible implementation within the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) division of transportation, planning, and programming. A review of

2006 ... Rob Harrison [and four others] ∑ The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has partnered with metropolitan areas to support using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) data in order to make real-time decisions and support performance measures for general transportation with facilities like TransGuide in San

2006 ... Robert Harrison [and nine others] ∑ The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) will provide relatively few links to by-passed metropolitan areas, and it is highly likely that inland ports or groups of "big box" outlets will be developed close to such connections to promote more efficient freight distribution. Project 0-4702 evaluated data,

2006 ... RS: Robert Harrison, CTR; Researchers: Gary Barricklow [and five others] ∑ In 2002, Governor Rick Perry announced his vision for a new transportation system for Texas, the Trans Texas Corridors (TTC). He proposed that Texas be connected by a 4,000-mile network of corridors up to 1,200 feet wide with separate lanes

2005 ... Robert Harrison, Lisa Loftus-Otway and Ajay Shakyaver ∑ In the year 2000 the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) commissioned a research project (0-4083) on the growth of inland ports along transportation corridors in Texas and the United States. This project was staffed by a multi-institutional team

2005 ... Russell H. Henk [and four others] ∑ The formal goals set forth in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Transportation regarding the deployment of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies, accompanied by TEA-21 funding support for these deployments, has resulted in significant progress for ITS in the United States in

2004 ... Russell H. Henk [and four others] ∑ The formal goals set forth in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Transportation regarding the deployment of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies, accompanied by TEA-21 funding support for these deployments, has resulted in significant progress for ITS in the United States in